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Weekly Roundup: Hadoop Happenings Ending 4/4

This week the battle between providers continued as Cloudera got new funding and Amazon Web Services dropped its pricing. Apache Tajo reached top level status, and case studies on the applications of Hadoop continued to roll in.

1. Cloudera takes $740M bag of money from Intel-much more than we expected

Intel, which recently abandoned its own Hadoop distribution in favor of Cloudera, was included in Cloudera’s recent funding round as one of the biggest contributors. Read More

2. Financial Companies do Hadoop

HortonWorks provides several use cases for Hadoop in the financial services industry. Read More